A vote itself has a simple definition: it is a choice made by a group or a particular person to make a decision or express an opinion. But hundreds of years ago the voting methods were completely different than they are now. Read on and learn how the most essential decision-making procedure shaped the world we live in.

Sometimes it’s quite hard to find out what your congregation needs, as not all of them truly speak out. Usually, only the most active members share their feelings and thoughts, while the others are too shy. Anonymous church survey can be a great solution for these kinds of problems.

Most people who start making a PowerPoint presentation want it to be something amazing that will wow the audience. But it often ends up being another boring presentation that sends people to sleep. This happens because speakers don’t know exactly what makes a good presentation – the design, the takeaways, the story or something else.

It takes experience and good taste to design a beautiful and informative presentation in PowerPoint, but it takes real effort and creativity to make your presentation stand out of the “typical” and “usual” (read – boring).

Use the approaches and techniques outlined in this article to engage and interact with your audience during your presentation.

Keeping audience attention is more important and sometimes more difficult than grabbing audience attention. People come to a conference expecting to see and hear interesting things, and when they do not get the value they expect, the overall interest and participation falls drastically.
Here are 5 essential methods which will help you stay connected with your audience during a conference.Read more…

A strong company culture based on core values and principles shared between all employees is crucial to business success. Companies that put their teams first and foster a spirit of inclusiveness are rewarded with increased employee loyalty, employee satisfaction and low turnover rates.

Communication becomes more difficult when a company grows. Discussing things with your team one-on-one when it is more than 10 people is inefficient and exhausting. In such cases you rely on company-wide, all-hands meetings, which makes it easier to focus your entire team on company goals and current activities (among everything else).Read more…

When speaking to an audience, it’s important to show — not just tell — your message. But this principle doesn’t end with your prepared remarks. By using a word cloud, you can graphically show the audience members their own feedback.

Nowadays there are variety of data representation tools that people use to have better experience and the communicate the information. Word cloud (tag cloud) is one of these tools that communicates information in a very creative way. Read more…

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About Swift Polling:

Swift Polling by ExciteM was founded in July 2011 in Sunnyvale California. ExciteM’s mission is to be the leader in interactive market research and audience engagement.

ExciteM’s clients can leverage tools such as surveys, polls, on-air graphics and cross-channel vote collection, poll scheduling and more to research their target audience and the market, drive educated decisions and shape their content based on strong data rather than intuition.